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Quotes About Depressing

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
~ Roger Ebert
Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.
~ Keith Olbermann
That an entire industry could float in a mist of illusion and false confidence is depressing but true, and better to learn earlier than later.
~ Jason Kelly
What is both surprising and depressing is the sheer prayerlessness that characterizes so much of the Western church. It is surprising, because it is out of step with the Bible that portrays what Christian living should be; it is depressing, because it frequently coexists with abounding Christian activity that somehow seems hollow, frivolous, and superficial.10
~ Alexander Strauch
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
~ Thomas Frank
Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
~ Jeremy Paxman
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.
~ Rick Riordan
The sour aura of dissatisfaction that seeped through the walls, along with the even less appetizing smell of boiled cabbage, was really quite depressing. Ursula wanted her refugees to be soulful and romantic—fleeing for their cultural lives—rather than the abused wives of insurance clerks. Which was ridiculously unfair of her.
~ Kate Atkinson
Imagine a New Testament that closed with the little Letter of Jude addressed to a second-generation church that was being corrupted in its creed, conduct, character and conversation. So is that how it will all end? What a depressing anticlimax!
~ David Pawson
The truth is way more depressing. They're not even smart enough to be as evil as you're giving them credit for.
~ David Sirota
You see, I tell myself, here is the reason to stay clean: because life is so ridiculous, and if you're sober, it's funny; if you're high, it's just depressing. Or maybe it's the opposite. But I hope not.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
~ Andrew Garfield
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
~ Dolly Parton
We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
~ Keren Woodward
For the paranoids, this increases their paranoia, which they seem to enjoy. For a guerrilla ontologist like me, it increases my agnosticism, which I prefer to paranoia, because I find it more amusing and less depressing.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
~ Jack Dee
Thank you, Daylight Savings Time, for making people wax on about the wonder of an extra hour of sleep, only to serve as an especially depressing reminder to parents that kids don't care about farmers and harvests and extra hours of daylight. I enjoy my kids standing at my bedside at 4:30 a.m. like creepy, wide-awake Children of the Corn. Naptimes are also jacked, so there's that. With all due respect-ish, A Tired Mom.
~ Jen Hatmaker
Thank you, Daylight Savings Time, for making people wax on about the wonder of an extra hour of sleep, only to serve as an especially depressing reminder to parents that kids don't care about farmers and harvests and extra hours of daylight. I enjoy my kids standing at my bedside at 4:30 a.m. like creepy, wide-awake Children of the Corn. Naptimes are also jacked, so there's that. With all due respect-ish, A Tired Mom. Thank you, Obvious
~ Jen Hatmaker
One of the most depressing things about President Donald Trump's decision to roll back elements of the Cuba opening is how predictable it was.
~ Ben Rhodes
Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
~ Kate Bush
We live in a very classist society, and it's sad and depressing.
~ Shenaz Treasury
I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.
~ Brendan Sexton III